American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland by Robert O. Self

American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

Robert O. Self

408 pages 2003

2 editions

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As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined....

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